Mediation of Cohesive Clues in Simultaneous Interpreting: A Perspective of Interactive Embodiment and Mental Coherence Gao Wei Heriot-Watt University Abstract Based on interactive embodiment and mental coherence of cognitive linguistics (CL) (Lakoff1987, 1999; Langacker 2000, Zwaan2000, Wang Yin 2006) and also Relevance Theory (RT) (Sperber and Wilson 1986, 1995), this paper aims to reveal how ...

Syntactic simplification is the process of reducing the grammatical complexity of a text, while retaining its information content and meaning. The aim of syntactic simplification is to make text easier to comprehend for human readers, or process by programs. In this paper, we formalise the interactions that take place between syntax and discourse during the simplification process. This is impor...

Syntactic simplification is the process of reducing the grammatical complexity of a text, while retaining its information content and meaning. The aim of syntactic simplification is to make text easier to comprehend for human readers, or process by programs. In this paper, we formalise the interactions that take place between syntax and discourse during the simplification process. This is impor...

This paper argues that three widely accepted motivating factors subsumed under the broad heading of iconicity, namely iconicity of quantity, iconicity of complexity and iconicity of cohesion, in fact have no role in explaining grammatical asymmetries and should be discarded. The iconicity accounts of the relevant phenomena have been proposed by authorities like Jakobson, Haiman and Givón, but I...

Research in generic unsupervised learning of language structure applied to the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and decipherment of unknown languages has sought to build up a generic picture of lexical and structural patterns characteristic of natural language. As part of this toolkit a generic system is required to facilitate the analysis of behavioural trends amongst selected p...

In this paper, we describe an n-gram approach to automatically assess essay quality in student writing. Underlying this approach is the development of n-gram indices that examine rhetorical, syntactic, grammatical, and cohesion features of paragraph types (introduction, body, and conclusion paragraphs) and entire essays. For this study, we developed over 300 n-gram indices and assessed their po...

This final project studied the analysis of cohesion found on students’ descriptive test writing in SMP N 01 Tayu. The design research was qualitative research. objectives study were (1) To find out type competence by eight grade Tayu producing text, (2) show dominant at their text Tayu, (3) to describe text. object 1 instruments data from students discussions prior chapters are be summarized ac...

Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the effects using inquiry-based writing instruction on students’ academic skills. A pretest-posttest two groups quasi-experimental design employed. Data were obtained through test, focus group discussion, and reflective journal from 62 first-year pharmacy students who selected comprehensive sampling. While experimental received instruction, cont...

Stylistics uses methods of science linguistics for textual interpretation. Language is a very important to stylisticians because diverse forms and levels that construct linguistic structure are vital index regarding function. The present study analyses short story Overcoat (2014) written by Ghulam Abbas under the perspective Leech Short’s (2007) model stylistic analysis. This consists four exte...